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    What Exactly Is The Point Of This...?

    A few of the redstone contraptions move blocks out of the way so you can open chests. Other than that, yes it is all utterly pointless weirdness. Wait until you find the carminite reactors.
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    Ask a simple question, get a simple answer

    In Ultimate I loaded frames into alvearies with Thaumcraft golems. They wait patiently for space in an inventory to appear and they looked cute. Vanilla hoppers are indeed the best things ever. You could put a buffer chest over the hopper, and when the buffer is empty send a signal requesting...
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    Best Modular Powersuit Setup?

    Turn off cooling, turn up your shields, soak yourself in lava and wait. This is a really ghetto way to recharge though. You get some power from flying around in hot biomes from the heat but if I had to choose between the thermal generator and the solar panel I'd go with solar.
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    Confirmed. Chuck steel in a smeltery and cast a pick head. You'll be able to mine cobalt and ardite.
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    Giant underground base?

    I played Ultimate inside the bedrock bunker of a Twilight Forest maze once. It was a PVP server so this was a perfectly sane and rational thing to do. I've also built some pretty nice and aesthetically pleasing Dwarf Fortresses since then. Honestly underground bases are probably my favorite...
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    I usually hide one accumulator and two source blocks under each and every boiler to cut down on piping and losses due to exploding boilers. What you really want is to have the entire boiler/water system all in the same chunk, and maybe also the fuel buffer too. Don't trust chunkloaders completely.
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    So you went through a nether portal... and wound up far away in the overworld? It is one thing to go through a portal, then try to return and wind up a bit more than 1k blocks away from where you expected. That's a normal consequence of having other portals nearby and vanilla nether portal...
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    What farms are the best?

    How... how can people be seriously using MultiFarms? Did they remove the dirt requirement? Last time I tried it what you got was a machine for converting dirt into sand that harvested a few trees on the side, and while you could farm that much dirt you'd have to quarry constantly or use some...
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    What farms are the best?

    Yes and no. You probably also built a massive network of tanks, pipes and treefarms. A lot of events have to happen to keep your boilers powered and every one of those tick events will cost system resources. A boiler by itself isn't that evil, but bases with large numbers of boilers are almost...
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    What farms are the best?

    This is the right idea. A lot of people build a dozen 36hp boilers, then never use all the power, then complain that they have no FPS. We're all still recovering from GregTech's power requirements.
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    My New Puppy

    I was expecting a puppy. You have disappointed me. Also, this works and if you have fun building it then it's all good, but it is more efficient in every single way to use PowerConverters.
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    Treealyzed things no longer seem to work in MFR's bio-reactor. This is no surprise given that SirSengir doesn't seem to really love MFR. Through careful testing and running around the world at random, the trees with vanilla oak wood and funky saplings that are recognized by the bio-reactor...
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    Extra Utilities adds a beautiful block called an iron spike. It is large and pointy. It does about what you'd imagine.
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    Apple trees from BoP have the useful property of being made from a vanilla wood while having funky saplings for the bio-reactor. Do any other trees in Unleashed have that property?
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    Best Modular Powersuit Setup?

    On occasion, your connection is dying (or your server is on its deathbed) and the client is also unable to register that time's up and the night vision buff should be removed. This produces a super-seizure blinky rendering as the client tries to decide if it should draw the environment with or...
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    Best Modular Powersuit Setup?

    The key things to consider are not overheating, not running out of power and not having a suit that totals more than 25 kg in weight (that will slow you down). This isn't really that hard to do and you won't have to make major tradeoffs; it's supposed to be slightly overpowered Swiss Army gear...
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    I want roses. Specifically, I want to farm roses in huge numbers. How do I make this happen efficiently?
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    Why Do People Always Build Boxes?

    That's good, but it often takes a long time to get to it especially with thaumic bees and TT cluttering the Thaumonomicon. While you're at it you might get lucky and find a division sigil. The builder's wand from extra utilities is completely worth the trouble. What it does is allow you to lay...
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    Why Do People Always Build Boxes?

    Turtle programs, man. If you want a huge complicated house then learning how to turtle will make that much easier. There's also a vanilla trick where you can use lava and water to make huge vertical walls out of any material you like so long as they're cobble.
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    Best tool for mining nether ores?

    You probably have flight and some form of fire resistance at this point so being dumped in lava is less exciting than it once was, but either you made a lot of wands or you put repair on it. The aura in the nether is very fragile because there is no infused stone to recharge it and no extra...